Forensics Readiness in Cloud Environments

18

Introduction

As discussed previously in this book, the concept of digital forensics readiness is focused primarily on reducing costs and minimizing business interruptions when performing investigations. In a cloud environment, achieving a state of digital forensics readiness is important because of the volatile nature in which cloud computing environment operate and the increased potential for service disruptions to gather evidence during an investigation.

Through the combination of several major technology concepts, cloud computing has evolved over several decades to become the next generation of computing models. As cloud computing continues to mature, providing organizations with an inexpensive ...

Get Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.